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AN lNSULTED LADY,
Complaint of a Woman Who, Though No
All Wool, Is Certainly a Yard Wide.

Complaint of a Woman Who, Though N OF
All Wool, Is Certainly Yard Wide.
A woman weighing three hundre
and sixty-nine pounds, wearing her hair
cut short, entered the Office of the pres
ident of the San Antonio Street Railroad
Company, and in voice that was a
cross betweena bass violin and boiler
shop said:
II came here to complain of the
driver of one of your cars
whats he been doing?" asked the
official.
''In crossing the car track I had the
misfortune to slip and fall, and could
not get up right away, for as you see I
am not Sarah Bernhardt. I'm fat all
over"
'.Well. what next?''
''The driver of the street car stopped
his mule and insulted me-"
''What did he say?''
''He said if / would get up and let
him drive on that I could sit down
again on the car track as soon as the
car had passed."
Il shall have him reprimanded," said
the official.
"Thank you sir; thank you. I'll pat
ronize your street car line hereafter,
that is, if the door is wide enough.
Good morning, sir. J"
As she passed out, the official re-
marked to clerk:
''She may not be all wool, but she
certainly is yard wide. "-Teras .Sifl
sngs.
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NUMBER Is.
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

--Thirty-tour salt wells have been put
down in Wyoming County, N. T., this
year.
Nova Scotia ships thousands Of
barrels of apples to New York City ev-
cry week.
Kansas has led all the States in the
Union the past year in railroad build
ing. = Chicago Journal.
Another large ostrich farm is to be
established in California, this time at
Coronado beach, San Diego County.
There are 125 cheese factories in
st. Lawrence County, N. Y and last
year they manufactured and sold 49,
900, 900 pounds of cheese.
The German State Railway Coun-
Gil has forbidden the employment of
men in active service ON The railroads
beyond eight hours daily.
Some Northern manufacturers of
stoves are moving South in consequence
of Western competition and on account
of the cheapness ofiron in Alabama and
Tennessee.
Nova Scotia's apple crop is larger
this season than for many years past.
1t is estimated that there will not be
fewer than 100000 barrels for export,
double the quantity of last year.
In Wyoming County, New York.
the fruit evaporating industry has
completely died out. For awhile much
money was made in the business, but
SO many people went into it that de-
cline was inevitable.
--Bricklayers have been at work
nights on building in Rochester, N.
Z, by the aid of electric lights. The
lights are arranged along the top Of
the building and the men find they can
lay brick as we'll by them as by day
light. Express.
One of the industries of Vermont
is the gathering of white pine cones
and extracting the seeds, which are
sent to Germany, France and other
parts of Europe. A bushel of cones
yields pound OF seeds. The cones are
dried and the seeds beaten out--Rut-
land Herald.
The Sheep Breeder and Wool Groscer
says: Letters from sheep breeders
and wool growers in every quarter in
dicate an almost remarkable revival of
interest in an industry whose utter ex-
tinction was predicted by gloomy
prophets few years ago."
The Knights of Labor were organ
lied in Philadelphia in 1869. They
were first known publicly as the Teapot
club, because pot of tea was always
on hand at the meetings, for those
members who drank nothing stronger
no intoxicating liquors. PhiladeI-
pbta Record.
Great speed has been attained in
the manufacture of rifles. One hun
dred and twenty barrels can be rolled
in an hour by one machine; they are
straightehed cold and bored with cor
responding speed, and even the rifling
is now done automatically, so that one
man tending six machines can turn out
sixty or seventy barrels per day. With
the old rifling machine twenty barrels
was about the limit of a days work, but
the improved machines attend to every
thing after they are once started, and
when the rifling is completed ring q
bell to call the attention of the work
man. He is thus enabled to attend as
many as six machines at time.-M Y.
Times
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A live man should not want the
earth, he should be above it-Teros
Stftings.
--"What is educationp' asks writer.
Well, it is something college graduate
thinks he has until he becomes news
paper MANN. Y. Mail.
Many young man who has been
too bashful to propose to girl has had
her father come into the parlor at
eleven o'clock and help him QUITO.
ledo Blade.
The man who invented the English
language must have been a hum orous
sort of chap. Otherwise he would
never have called servants 'help." -
SomcrUilie Journal.
DO not think yourself smart, my
son, when you have succeeded in de-
ceiving your mother. Your mother
wants to believe every thing good and
nothing bad of her son; therefore there
is nobody you can fool so easily as her
except yourself. except yourself, ex.
eept yourself. Boston Transcript.
-'Well. john" said the Judge to a
pig-tailed Celestial, what can do fol
you?" "Want to getee name changed. =
whats your name now?" s'Sing
Sing No goodee. Too muchee aldeI-
man. Getee changed to WaIble
Twice." ITO Marble Twice?" "Yep.
ALLIE samee Sing Sing."-N. Y. Sun.
"A novelist makes his heroine throw
800 900 of her own money into the sea
so as to relieve her lover of the sus-
picion of being mercenary. She should
have given the money to her lover to
start a paper intended to fill long-felt
want She would have lost it just the
same and it would have been little
more natural. -New Hauen News.
Little Dorrit Mamma, when
does my birthday Gomez" Dashing
Young Widow week. pet. -
How old will be?' why! gracious
me! Can it be possible? You will be
nine years old, just think of it. y "Well,
I'll think of it" mo, no, 1 mean
don't think of in Y. Independent.
Brute Force Again. -Edith-..I
was SO shocked last night. don't be-
lieve | will see George if he calls this
evening"" Maud-"What did he do?"
'.Why, last evening he suddenly took
hold rs ne. visited me around into his
arms, aud f,rcibly kissed me a dozen
times. / don't believe your little Willie
ever insults you that way. does hep"
mo, he's regular pump. -Onsahq
World,
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A MARRIAGE A IA MODE.

Mare YOU heard what they are saying
el'er the walnuts and the wine,
Secrets eagerly betraying
Ahout your affairs ana miner
zoos and friends receive attention.
Trom each chatting beau and belle,
And they casually mention
That Marie has married well.
aMarried wellp' All. that's expressive,
And from it we understand
ghat the bridegroom has excessive
store of ducats at command.
II he rood? He has his vices?
HAS he brains? We scarce can tell.
pandsorne? Hardly! 1t suffices,
II Marie has married well.
Does she love him? Loves a passion,
Childish in this latter day.
sbe will dress in the he ght of fashion.
And her bills he'll promptly pay.
I)oes he love her? Wildly, madly!
HE has welcomed naught as gladly;
Yes, Marie has married we'll
IA she happy? That's trifle;
Happiness is bought and sold;
And she readily can stitie
Love she used to know of old.
Well she knows heart is broken;
As for her's-she can not tell;
But her bridal vows are spoken,
And Marie has married well.
In this game one should give needing
To the stakes, not gentle arts;
And, when diamonds are leading,
Where's the use of playing hearts?
congratulate her gladly;
But the wish / can't dispel
That most girls may marry badly,
II Marie has married we'll
Henry B. Smith, in Rambler.
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THE HELlOTROPE.
Jussieu's Discovery of the Sweet, But Un-
pretentious, Little Flower.

Jussieu's Discovery of tho Sweet, But Un-
pretentious, Little Flower.
One day the botanist Jussieu was
herborizing on the Cordilleras, when
he suddenly found himself inebriated
by the most delicious perfume. He
looked around, expecting to discover
some splendid flower, but perceived
nothing but some pretty clumps of a
gentle green, from the bottom of which
little capsules of faded blue color were
detaching themselves. He observed
that the flowers turned toward the sun,
and he therefore gave it the name OF
heliotrope. Charmed with his acquisi.
ton, he collected some of the seeds and
sent them to the Jardin du Roi The
French ladies were charmed with it,
and made of it a floral pet. They
placed it in costly vases and christened
1t the flower of love. From thence il
soon spread to other parts of the world,
and has everywhere been greatly ad
mired. One day . ~ery charming
woman, who dotted passionately on the
heliotrope, was asked what she could
see in this dull and somber- looking
plant to justify so much admiration.
Because" she replied, ''the hello.
trope's perfume is to my parterre what
the soul is to beauty, refinement to
love, and love to youth. ~ NcE's Mag.
1zS7ac.
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"A tract of land on the western
shore of Cayuga Lake, near Canoga,
has been leased to Rochester parties
for the cultivation of frogs. The rails
ing of frogs for the New York market
has come to be recognized industry.
There is large frog farm in the neigh
borhood of Waterloo and several in
Canada, and still the demand is greater
than the supply.-N 7. San.
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Mr.. Minks-''I heard a pretty bad
story about Bliffkins to-day" Mrs.
Minks ks-'.Dear me, I'm not surprised.
Has he two wives?" 30. no; only -"
''Only one, and has run away from
her, then. Well, if ~ "No, no, he
didn't run away. it was -'' ''The
wife then. I knew she - ..No,
his horse ran away and injured him so
that -" ''By the way. dear. did you
get that fringe asked you to matchp"
-Ghicayo Tribune.
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{ General Horace Porter says Miss
Liberty can hold thirty-six men in her
head. That brings her about up to the
average girl of the period. Boston
Herd!d
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The ignorant Hindoo.

Omaha Man-'Going to put up some
fences, eh? By the way, noticed the
other day that in Hindostan a farmer
won't even build fence without con-
sulting a priest"
Nebraska Farmer-"What's that
for?''
''They want him to fix an auspicious
day, you know"
''What fools these heathens are! The
time to plant fenceposts is when the
horns of the moon are down. Omaha
World.
1t makes very little difference how
a hotel napkin is folded. The query
with the guest is who used It lsst =
Chicalo Journal.
, 1887-06-02
Public Debt Statement.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The following
is a recapitulation of the debt statement
issued to day: Interest bearing debt, prin-
clpal 81, LOG, 3l5, sl2; interest, Sll, 7O9, 1913;
total, 81, O9s, 024, 975. Debt on which i'll
terest has ceased since maturity, principal,
s6,64l ,295; interest, Sl96, 10Y; total,
$6,737,42. Debt bearing no interest,
1892, 779, 773. Total debt, principal, 81,
685, 636, $50; interest, 81 ,9O5, 27I; total,
81, 697, $40, Isl.
Total debt, less available cash items,
$l3, 2O2, 33l 54; debt less cash in treasury
June 1887, 81, 2s6, 2sl 1862. 90; decrease
of debt during month, IS, 1888, 997. 65; de-
crease of debt since June 80, 1886,
$92, S54, 92l 81; cash in treasury available
for the reduction of the public debt,
$277, 3O8, 997. 80: reserve fund and funds
unavailable for the reduction of the debt,
1888, 600, 52S 70; total cash in treasury as
shown by the trcasurer's general account,
1886, 269, 526. O5.
, 1887-06-02
Swift

LOUISVILLE, June News has just
been received from Eckarty, Ind, that on
Sunday morning Charles and Ray Davies
called at the farm of John Flanagan,
and after inducing the two sons to go to
another part of the farm, they forcibly
carried the l2-year-old daughter of
Flanagan to the woods, tied
her to a tree and outraged her. Next
morning the girl was found by some
neighbors still gagged and bound. She
was almost delirious from her sufferings.
She recovered sufficiently to give the
names of those who had assaulted her.
An a~venRing party was soon organized
and the Davies boys were pursued and
captured. They were taken to the scene
of their crime and hanged. John Enlaw,
who was strongly suspected of participate
ing in the villainous deed, was also hunted
down and lynched.
, 1887-06-02
Rifle Competition.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The lieutenant
general OF the army has fixed upon Sept.
l9 ext as the date for the beginning of
the annual rife competition between dis
tinguished marksmen of the army. The
match will take place at the Belleue rife
range, neal Omaha, and the competitors
will be selected by the department com
manders from their men as follows: Two
from the department of the East, one
from the department of Dakota, three
from the department of the Platte, one
from the department of Missouri, two
from the department of Texas, one from
the department of Columbia, one from
the department of California, and one
from the department of Arizona.
, 1887-06-02
Death,

New YORK. June Virginia Kelly,
a colored oma living in a tenement
house in West Thirtieth street, gave a
party last night, at which Matthew Nor
wood, also colored, was a guest. This
morning he was found lying dead beneath
his window, clutching a woman's sacque
in his lifeless hand and with a fatal wound
in the abdomen. The police think he
was thrown from the ROOM, which is in
the third story, The woman says she
don't know how he met his death. She
and a colored student named Charles
johnson are under arrest. The woman's
husband, who is believed to have done
the cutting, can't be found.
, 1887-06-02
Anxious to be Friendly.

LONDON. June 1.-The president of
the Cambridge University club publishes
a letter addressed to students OF the uni.
%veisity. in which he says that the college
clubs seem disinclined to subscribe toward
paying the expenses of sending a Cam
bridge crew to America for the purpose of
rowing against the Harvard university
club. He therefore appeals to indivi lual
members of the university to assist in
raising the necessary amount. He urges
the importance of the proposed race. ''as
it would draw the two institutions into
closer relations
, 1887-06-02
The U. P. investigation.

Boston, June 1.-The official investi-
CATION of the Union Pacitic railway affairs
was continued this morning. Gen. E.. P.
Alexander, of Savannah, testified that
he was formerly government director of
the Union Pacific road. He wa of the
opinion that the annual report of the
company was a fair basis to work upon
regarding the earning power of the road.
Concerning the relation of branch lines to
the parent road he had concluded that
branch earnings were about so per cent
of the net earnings of the road. He
said there could be no question
in the mind of any railroad man
who was familiar with the Union
Pacific road, that the existence of
the branch system of the road had been
its salvation. The matter of adjusting
rates between the branch and main lines
was a dificnlt matter to settle, and this.
he said. needed experimenting with before
it could be satisfactorily determined. From
the manner in which the matter of con
structive mileage was adjusted throughout
the country he was of the opinion that if
there was any discrimination. it was
against the branches.
Witness thought the branch lines
should be fostered as much as possible.
He said the managers of the Union Pa
ciic always felt that the Central Pacific
had not not cordially co operated with
them in regard to freights which might
be sent another way. The present situa-
ton was damaging to the Union Pacific
and government, and it was for the inter
est of both to adjust matters at once. The
first step is for the road to to pay a GER
tain fixed sum per year, however small.
Witness always understood that the road
was willing to let the government take
everything they had for security for its in
debtedness. The road could afford to pay
about 81, 800, 900 at the present time.
The debt will amount TO about
$53, 600, 900. including interest at 6 per
cent. Equal payments of 81, 800, 900
would pay off the debt in shout seventy
Years. 1t might be possible to have this
payment: gradually increased. If the
road should happen to fail in its annual
payments the government could assume
charge of the road. This would wipe
out the stock and mean death to the
management.
, 1887-06-02
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

The sultan Of Turkey has coded the
island of Cyprus to England.
The fifth biennial session of the New
Haven legislature began at Concord yes
terdaY.
Several warehouses and 25, 900 bales of
cotton were destroyed by fire Yesterday at
Pernambuco.
George Disque was hanged in Jersey
City yesterday, for the murder of his wife
Oct. 6, 1885.
Rebels in Candahar district have sub
mitted to the ameer. They submitted be-
cause of the approach of reinforcements.
The funeral of the late Ben: Perley
Poore at Indian Hill farm, Mass. took
place yesterday and was largely attended.
The new stock exchange of Chicago,
an adjunct of the Chicago board of trade,
was opened yesterday with a membership
of 800.
Great preparations are being made to
hold demonstrations in honor of Mr.. Glad
stone at all places through which he passes
enroute to Swansea.
A papal rescript has been issued from
Rome, ordering high mass and a tie deum
to be sung in all Catholic churches In
England in honor of the queens jubilee.
The thirty-third biennial convention of
the Angelical Lutheran church opened in
Omaha yesterday. There are 1872 delegates
in attendance. Business will begin to-
day.
The death is announced in London
of Thomas Spencer Baynes. the
well known professor of logic and one of
the editors of the Encyclopedia Brit
tdnicd.
The official statement of the public
debt of the Mexican government shows
the total national Indebtedness to. be
much lower than is given in recent pub
locations.
Bad weather interfered with the Sher-
man reception at Springfield yesterday,
and outside demonstrations were dispensed
with. In the state house Senator Sher-
mar addressed about 1000 people.
By authority of the president, Secre-
tary Endicott has set apart l 400 acres of
land embraced within the limits of Wind
river on the Shoshone Indian reservation,
Wyo., and a military reservation for the
most of Fort
The Reformed Presbyterian synod of
the United States and Canada met at
Newbury, n. Y, yesterday. Moderator
Caruthers presided. The synod was
opened with a sermon by the moderator
and the attendance is large.
Fire broke out in the strand at Ham
burg Tuesday. The Huebner quays were
destroyed, two English vessels were
burned, and much damage was done to
other shipping. The total damage will
amount to several million marks.
At Bachmut, Russia, 1900 striking
coal miners attempted to rob a brewery
owned by a firm of Englishmen. Fifty
English workmen resisted the attack of the
strikers. and during the fight three OF the
workmen were killed. The strikers were
all arrested.
, 1887-06-02
The Fisheries Question.

OTTAWA, Ont June I'm the house
of commons this afternoon Sir Charles
Upper, in reply to a question, said that
both the imperial and the
government OF Canada were doing all in
their power to promote a friendly adjust
ment of the fisheries difficulty, and to ar
range a reciprocity treaty with the United
States, but that it would not be in the in
terest of the public service to communi
cate anything more definite than that to
the house.
, 1887-06-02
VIII Ont.

READING, Pa, June The remains
OF the two boys who were so brutally
murdered by their grandfather, William
Showers, were buried to day in the vii.
lage cemetery at Annexville. Thousands
Of persons attended the burill, und public
excitement is unabated. Showers wife
died suddenly one year ago, and his
daughter, the mother of the two boys,
several months later, and there is now
suspicion that the desire of Showers to
marry Miss Sargent led him to take the
life of his wife and daughter. A thor
ough investigation will be made.
, 1887-06-02
Latonla Races.

LAToNIA, June loving to a heavy
rain last night the track was again in a
bad condition. The attendance was good.
For 3 year.olds and upwards, six fur
longs, John Henry won, Jennie Mcbar-
land second, Albert third. Time, 1881.
For maidens of all ages, seven furlongs,
Governor won, Blue Times second,
Walker third. Time, 1:35.
Mile, Little Minch won, Font second,
Biddy Bowling third. Time, 1:464.
For fllies 3 year ODDS, mile and half
furlong, Grisette won, Hindoo Rose
second, Coincide third. Time, 1858.
Latonia cup, all ages, mile and three
quarters, Fosteral won, KalOolah second,
O'Fallon third. Time. 3:l3t..
, 1887-06-02
The "Grand Old Man"

New YORK, June Fifteen hundred
enthusiastic admirers of Gladstone went
down the bay this afternoon to give
Godspeed to Richard M. > Walters, who
goes on the Germanic to present, with
Joseph Pulitzer, the memorial from New
York's citizens to the Grand Old Man"
, 1887-06-02
T%ELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Suicide of a Defaulting Post
master.
The Fisheries Questionable
Competition.
Swift Retribution--The q. P.
Investigation.
A Postmaster's Suicide.

BISMARCK. D. T., June 1.-The body
of Postmaster Canon, of Fort Lincoln,
was washed ashore at Winona. sixty-five
miles south of here, yesterday. The post
Office inspector found irregularities in the
Office and intimated that Canon was liable
to be arrested and imprisoned. He dis
appeared from the post Office at 6 o'clock
in the evening and not until the finding
of the body in the Missouri could any
facts in the case be ascertained. He was
worth about IS, 200 and 80 far as learned
leaves no will.
, 1887-06-02

Nh. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kas.
writes: II eve hesitate to recommend
your Electric Bitters to my customers,
they give entire satisfaction and are rapid
sellers" Electric Bittcrs are the purest
and best medicine known and will posi-
lively cure Kidney and Liver complaints.
Purify the blood and regulate the bowels.
No family car afford to be without them.
They will save hundreds of dollars in doc.
tors bills every year. Sold at fifty cents
a bottle by w. N. Hunt.
, 1887-06-02
Converted to the Catholic Faith

New YORK, June l-kev. Henry
VanRensselelaer. of the historic Albany
family of that name, has been converted
from the Episcopal church to the Catholic
faith, and was yesterday ordained by
Archbishop Corrigan as a priest. He has
become a member of the Society OF Jesus
and will 90 among the Indians as a mis-
sionary.
, 1887-06-02

CHICAGO, June Misunderstanding,
8 5000; market stronger; shipping steers,
5000 l, 500 pounds, So 1904 80; stockers
and feeders, 81. 5O(G4.O 90; Texas cattle,
81. 6O(94.1O.
Sheep-Receipts 5000; market weaker;
natives, SO. 5O(94. so; Western, So. 500
4.45; Texans, 50 1904 20.
, 1887-06-02
The Thistle Wins.

LONDON, June 1.-The yacht race to-
day over the royal Thames fifty mile
course was won by the Thistle, which ran
the course in six hours. The Lrep covered
the course in six hours and twenty three
minutes; the Genesta in six hours and
twenty FIVE minutes. The Thistle
achieved q brilliant victory.
, 1887-06-02
Death of Stoddard.

DAYTON, Ohio, June Fowler Stod-
dard, who was shot by Newton Chubbs
last night, died this morning. The as
sassln was remanded to Jail without bail
or the charge of murder in the first de
gree.
, 1887-06-02

For the cure of pain St. Sacobs all has
no equal. Price fifty cents a bottle.
, 1887-06-02

A splendid line of Summer Coats and
Vests, very low. at
PoLACK's.
, 1887-06-02

PHILADELPHIA, June Athletics 2,
Louisville 3.
BALTIMORE, June Baltimore 2,
Cincinnati 4.
, 1887-06-02

MoNM f IF the sps good sat 1ai W Of '4 Iss
alone on account OF Dyspepsia. kcker's
Dyspepsia Tablets will cure Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Constipation; sold on a
positive guarantee at 25 and 90 cents, by
DR.. w. N. Hunt
, 1887-06-02
Base Ball.


New YORK, June New York 8,
Boston 8.
, 1887-06-02
Secure cheap shoes. W. Myers.

Mining Location notice.. at Leader Office.
, 1887-06-02
HOLLINGSWORTH HAY RAKES.

Archives & historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.